Staten Island AdvanceAmong the three teens killed in the July 4 crash on the Garden State Parkway were Eric Colligan, 15, left, and Chrystoph Iliopoulos, 13, right, both of Staten Island.

MIDDLETOWN — A passenger who survived the July 4 crash on the Garden State Parkway that killed three Staten Island teens blamed a speeding vehicle for cutting off the family's SUV and causing the accident, according to published reports.

Vincent Whiteaker, 25, was in the front passenger seat of a Ford Expedition driven by his fiancée's father, Dimitrios Iliopoulos, 54, when the SUV swerved off the highway, into a guard rail and flipped over twice at about 5:08 a.m. Monday, the Staten Island Advance reported.

"All of a sudden I saw a black car fly past us and cut us off," Whiteaker told the New York Daily News. "It must have been going 150 miles per hour. I heard her dad scream, 'Vinny! Vinny!' as the car started weaving back and forth. I put my hands over my head and felt the car flip."

Two teenage brothers and their teenage friend were killed, and four other people were seriously injured, when the SUV flipped over on the Parkway in the pre-dawn crash.

The deceased teenagers, identified as Chrystoph Iliopoulos, 13, his brother, Hlias Iliopoulos, 18, and a family friend, Eric Colligan, 15, also of Staten Island, were thrown from the rolling vehicle, said State Police Sgt. Julian Castellanos.

Also ejected onto the center median were the brothers’ mother, Stavroula Iliopoulos, 51, and sister, Fotiny Iliopoulos, 20, Castellanos said. The two brothers, their mother, sister and family friend, had all been seated in the back.

Also injured were the father, Dimitrios — who was driving the gray Ford Expedition — and his daughter’s fiance (Whiteaker), 25, also of Staten Island, Castellanos said.

The accident occurred on the Parkway's northbound express lanes near exit 112.